UNICEF Spokesman in Cote d’Ivoire, Loius Vigneault-Dubois told newsmen in Abidjan that the deaths were mainly due to ailments such as malaria, diarrhea and blood infections. Vigneault-Dubois also identified chronic malnutrition as a major cause of the high rate of deaths among children in the country.
“Children in Côte d’Ivoire are also faced with chronic malnutrition, a condition that makes many children look smaller than other well-fed children of their age,” he said. The UNICEF official said that urgent steps were necessary to tackle issues concerning the social improvement of the child and reduce the mortality rate.
He said that UNIICEF and the Ivorian government had adopted a 30 billion CFA intervention plan on child health and education. “UNICEF and Cote d’Ivoire have adopted a plan for the health and education of the child with a budget of 30 billion CFA for 2014 and 2015.
“Health takes 44 per cent of the budget while education has 27 per cent. Our goal is to reduce infant and maternal mortality,” he said. Vigneault-Dubois said that part of the plan was also to build new schools and implement programmes that would strengthen the capacities of health workers to perform efficiently
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